Fratellis proud of "personal" album

The Fratellis have claimed that they are proud of their "revealing and personal" second album.

The 'Chelsea Dagger' rockers admitted that their first album didn't make much sense lyrically, but argued that their follow-up Here We Stand shows a new maturity in their songwriting.

Singer Jon Lawler told The Sun: "We’re really proud of it. For the first time I really concentrated on the words.

"I felt a bit schizophrenic when I read them back. They’re really revealing and personal in places.

“A lot of the songs on the first record don’t make a great amount of sense. There are bits of that record I’ll just skip through if I’m listening to it again, and I don’t think that’s a good thing."

Responding to accusations of musical plagiarism, the frontman said: "I can never pretend what we do is original. We never steal things directly.

"But we’ve taken those influences and given them our own spin."